Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- open_movie_maker:open_movie_maker [2008/03/24 09:49] – deva
+++ open_movie_maker:open_movie_maker [2009/10/20 14:14] (current) – removed deva
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-=====Open Movie Maker=====
-====What is Open Movie Maker====
-Open Movie Maker is the brainchild of Bent Bisballe Nyeng, intended for an open and cross-platform alternative to the simple movie editing tool Windows Movie Maker.\\
-It is based on three basic principles:\\
-  - Clips
-  - Effects
-  - Transitions
-Clips contain images in a time line (frames), and can be made from a movie clip, an image (repeated) or simply a colour.\\
-A clip can have several effects attached to it, in a certain order, that will be applied after the bottom frame has been read in.\\
-These effects can for example be, overlay logo, brightness/contrast eq, scale/rotate/translate, and much much more.\\
-The effects will be separated from the main program using a generic plug in architecture, so people easily can program their own filters.\\
-Transitions are used when 'mixing' two clips on the time line.\\
-A transition can be a cross fade, a slide, fade-to-black/fade-from-black and much more.\\
-Like the effects the transitions will be plug in based.
-Default only a single time line is intended, but layering might occur at some point ;-)\\
-All movie clips are intended to be used as they are, i.e. they will not be converted into a uniform format by the application when imported, and only copied to the project folder if the user wishes them to be.\\
-This will save a lot of HD space, and badly encoded clips will not become even worse due to en re-encoding.
-This off cause comes at the cost of potential performance loss, since a lot of decoding will be going on during play/export.\\
-The file format will simply be an XML file containing references to the clips, effects and transitions used.
-====What will be used to achieve this====
-As the GUI framework the QT4 framework will be used, since it is highly portable and looks very nice ;-)\\
-The decoding/encoding back end will at first be the ffmpeg library, since it is also highly portable, and supports a tremendous amount of video/audio formats. But down the road it is the intention to include more engines, to support even more formats.
-  * http://www.trolltech.com
-  * http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu
-====Some links to existing video projects====
-  * http://www.kdenlive.org/
-  * http://www.kinodv.org/
-  * http://cinelerra.org/
-  * http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net/
-  * http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/
-  * http://www.piksel.org/frei0r